Burnham Institute for Medical Research

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Aerial view of the Burnham Institute, at the distance Scripps, UCSD, Salk, Scripps Oceanography, La Jolla.
Aerial view of the Burnham Institute, at the distance Scripps, UCSD, Salk, Scripps Oceanography, La Jolla.

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006. Founded in La Jolla, California, as a non-profit medical research institute focused on cancer research, with an annual operating budget of $113 million. Of the 800+ employees at the Institute, more than 600 are scientists, and more than 220 of those are postdoctoral trainees. The Burnham is home to four major centers: a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center; the Del E. Webb Center for Neurosciences, Aging and Stem Cell Research; the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center; and the Sanford Children’s Health Research Center. In 2006, Burnham established a center for bionanotechnology research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Vascular Mapping Center, led by medical researcher Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti, is focused on discovering peptides that target cancer cells and developing methods to deliver therapeutic agents to those cells.

In 2007, Burnham teamed up with the University of Central Florida to establishing a campus at Lake Nona in Orlando, Florida that will focus on diabetes and obesity research and will expand the Institute’s drug discovery capabilities. Today, Burnham ranks consistently among the world’s top 25 organizations for its research impact (according to data obtained from Thomson Scientific) and among the top four research institutes nationally for NIH grant funding. Our objective at Burnham is to reveal the fundamental molecular mechanisms of disease, and to use that knowledge to devise the prototype therapies of tomorrow. This aim is undertaken through a highly collaborative style of research, that merges the talents of biologists with chemists, biophysicists, engineers, and computer scientists, creating a symphony of scientific synergy that emphasizes team-based approaches for tackling the great unmet medical challenges of today. Our mantra is “From Research, the Power to Cure.”

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Thirty years ago, William (Bill) H. Fishman, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife Lillian Fishman, M.Ed., packed up 28 years of memories and groundbreaking research and left Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue their vision. This "idea": to found an independent research institution dedicated to the then innovative concept of oncodevelopment, led Bill and Lillian to shun retirement from Tufts University School of Medicine, move across the country and create an institute in San Diego, California, focused on biomedical research. Founded in 1976 as the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation (LJCRS), the Institute originally focused on oncodevelopment, or the study of developmental biology in conjunction with oncology, as a means to better understand the elusive and deadly nature of cancer. Bill's belief that the study of normal developmental biology would lead to an understanding of the aberrant nature of cancer cells grew from a lifetime of stellar research.

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Cluster analysis of 1,808 publications by The Burnham Institute for Medical Research for the period of 1999 to 2006 by Kosi Gramatikoff.
Cluster analysis of 1,808 publications by The Burnham Institute for Medical Research for the period of 1999 to 2006 by Kosi Gramatikoff.

1,808 Burnham's publications were extracted from PubMed for the period of 1999-2006, clustered by field of reserch (see the figure on the right, top) and journal type (listed below):

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  • List of research institutes

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